Re: Packages and file ownerships

|--==> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Ville> When installing packages with the package UI as root Ville> (21.4.6 on RedHat 7.2), the extracted files get their Ville> ownerships from the tarballs, which is not nice. Nowadays Ville> the files seem to have 103/100 as their owner. Some may Ville> consider it as a security hole, not? SJT> I suppose. This is always an issue with root. SJT> I guess Steve could SJT> (1) make sure there are no set-id binaries in the SJT> packages, Which there aren't. SJT> (2) force the ownership with tar --owner=0 --group=0 Yep, I can do this. I'll patch 'XEmacs.rules'. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|